2 Chronicles 21:5

Jehoram [is] a son of thirty-two years in his reigning, and he has reigned eight years in Jerusalem,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

In Context

4And Jehoram rises up over the kingdom of his father, and strengthens himself, and slays all his brothers with the sword, and also of the heads of Israel.

6and he walks in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab did, for a daughter of Ahab has been to him for a wife, and he does evil in the eyes of YHWH,

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Cross References

2 Kings 8:17he was a son of thirty-two years in his reigning, and he has reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 21:2-12

Jehoram's Wicked Reign. ( b. c. 889.) 1 Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead. 2 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel. 3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because… Read the whole commentary →

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